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1st ink on the new CD - hometown paper

Thu, 10 Mar 2011 00:00:00 -0800

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Published: Thursday, March 10, 2011 at 1:00 a.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, March 9, 2011 at 10:04 a.m.

Artist: Gene "Sarasota Slim" Hardage (guitar, vocals, composition, production)

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Gene "Sarasota Slim" Hardage

Base of operation: St. Petersburg

Style/genre of music: Blues

Bio: Sarasota Slim's new disc (the third on Hardage's own Possum Phono-Graphics label, and eighth overall) entitled, "Get Up Get Down," is commingled blues, funk, boogie, slide guitar and heaps of warm Southern charm. Hardage, who grew up in Sarasota, is as authentic and talented as they come, having worked/ toured with Lucky Peterson (1988) and earning his "Sarasota Slim" nickname from Rock Bottom (with whom he played, in The Jungle Bushmasters and The Cuttaways). Internationally acclaimed, Hardage released four albums on Italian label Appaloosa throughout the 1990s, and toured Europe. He also started (with the now-defunct Gulf Coast Blues Society) the long-running Monday night blues jam at Tampa's Green Iguana. Hardage calls on a changeable collection of musicians for live performances and recording, including keyboards and backup vocalists to augment standard guitar, bass and drums.

Quote: "If only I could do what the rest of my contemporaries do, and that is to brag about some horrible brush with death and jail and, y'know, three kinds of drug addictions, and all kinds of the bad things that blues people are supposed to have, y'know, I would be really popular," Hardage joked.

Where to see: 7-10 p.m. Saturday. Venice's Snook Haven (485-7221). Free / Official CD release party, 6-10 p.m. March 20 at Skipper's Smokehouse in Tampa ($6).

Where to buy CDs: CDBaby.com and performances ($10)

Website: sarasotaslim.com

-- Dawn Scire, dawnzig@hotmail.com

CD is finally here...

Tue, 22 Feb 2011 00:00:00 -0800

...and now to take over the world.

The new CD is Done!

Thu, 30 Sep 2010 00:00:00 -0700

Finally got the the CD done. Next step is some liner notes - song order - pics - title - stuff like that. I did a silly intro for a song that I'm playing slide on and thought it might be fun to video it while we recorded it. There are 4 takes and we picked Take #2 for the song intro.

slowly picking away...

Sat, 05 Jun 2010 00:00:00 -0700

...on some new CD material.

Da Bucs & da Blues...

Mon, 06 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Buccaneers Football of course. The big news is that 2 of the new offensive line coaches are big blues fans and they tracked me down via the www and came to see us play da blues at the Ringside Cafe last night. One of them handed me a piece of paper with a football play drawn on it and said they were naming that play code name - Sarasota Slim !!! That's right folks you might hear my name mentioned on Monday night football - let's hope the play scores. I can see a whole series of plays named for blues guys - alright guys on the 1 - we're doing the Howlin' Wolf.

2 steps from Bobby "Blue" Bland

Sat, 30 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700

That's right folks - one of the greatest blues singers in the world with decades of huge radio hits including the definitive version of Stormy Monday will be the headliner of a fundraising event to benefit the Polk Museum of Art in Lakeland, FL on Friday, October 3rd. We will open for him starting at 6pm. !!!! (see my gig listings for full details)

Cote Seafood Fest news flash

Sun, 11 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700

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Sarasota Slim on da news @ Yahoo! Video

15 seconds of fame...

Wed, 07 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700

That's right folks - we got our 15 seconds of local fame thanks to the good folks who put on the Cotee River Blues Fest in New Port Richey. It seems that Virginia Johnson of Bay News 9 needed some footage of one of the bands so we were suggested and PRESTO!!! we have our 15 seconds of fame to be aired every hour starting this Friday until the Fest is over I guess!!!

the "Gary Westbrook" party scam

Wed, 24 Oct 2007 00:00:00 -0700

It seems that the good folks in Nigeria have nothing better to do than try to scam people. I just got my first fake 419 Nigerian money order for $4000.00 to go play a party in Salem, Oregon. http://www.sarasotaslim.com/images/scamcheck72dpi.jpg
I actually called the CIA and they said unless you've lost money they don't have any time to fool with it.

Here's the text of the original email:

From: whiteguy21239@yahoo.com
Subject: Salem Invitation.
Date: September 29, 2007 3:10:24 PM EDT
To: slim@sarasotaslim.com

Good Day,
I have a party in Salem, which I'll love to have you; the party is a send of party of one of my co-worker that will be relocating.
I'll love to have your band to Come and perform on that day, the total numbers of guest that will present at the party was 50 and the party is going to be an indoor event. I'll provide you with staging and lighting .
The date of the party is 11/10.
Let me know if your band is not book on that day.
Here's the party venue,
Salem City Hall
555 Liberty St SE
Salem, Oregon 97301
Let me know the amount you'll ask for to come and perform at the party.
A friend called Greg Adams introduced me to your band.
If you'll be staying overnight around that area, I'll want you to quote the hotel fee with your performance fee.
Let me know what it's going to cost to have you on that day, and include your phone numbers in the next email.
Regards,
Gary Westbrook.
N.B I don't mind to pay more money to get the best band.

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OK - after getting several more emails and even a few phone calls (one with a caller ID that pointed to Nigeria --- 23417656838 ) I got the money order and then - you guessed it - he sent this email:

Hello Gene,
Sorry I have not been contacting you since some days ago, and I am also expecting you to email me as well.
It’s like we’ll not be able to continue with the party, so things happen between the organizers and we have choose not to do the party.
I think I should let you know, the man that will be getting transfer was lost in a car accident in California, and this has brought the most shocking moment to the member and other staffs that’s why we decided not to continue with the party.
What I’ll want you to do is that I’ll like you to deduct $1000 from the money you have with you, and I’ll like to have refund of the rest of the money.
I’ll keep your contact details, and invite you for any future event that we may have, that’s for being sincere.
I’ll like to have the money sent to me, I’m still over here in Spain, and I’ll like to have the money. You’ll be sending the money to me via western union, and here are the details that you’ll be sending the money to,
Name ROBERT WILLIAMS
Address CALLE, MATINEZ 7,30004
MURCIA SPAIN.
Go to any western union outlets around you to send the money, you are going to be asked to pay some money to send the funds, I’ll like you to deduct the transfer fee from my money and have the rest of the money sent.
You’ll be given some 10 digits numbers call M.T.C.N I’ll like you to email me the numbers as soon as you have the money sent.
Regards,
Gary.

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OK - enough time wasted on this BS. Hope this info being posted here helps prevent others from falling for a fairly simple scam.

GH/SS

We will scatter Mabel's ashes

Mon, 03 Sep 2007 00:00:00 -0700

After a long and difficult 2 to 3 years in the nursing home my mother Mabel, the youngest of four, finally joined her two sisters Eva, Roberta, and brother Bob. We plan to scatter her ashes on Siesta Key Beach as she requested. While rooting through some of her belongings I ran across a pic I had never seen before. http://www.sarasotaslim.com/images/hugemomdadinokinawa1951.jpg

http://www.sarasotaslim.com/photos-group-19.html